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Considering how much of car manufacturing is done by union workers, I don’t think you can make a good argument that it is practical.

90% of Swedish workers belong to a trade union.

These are service workers. And very few want to join a union.

Cultural. Many American companies think they can skip unions and/or collective bargaining when they come to Europe, and find out to their detriment that they can't.

Or they try to find as many loopholes in laws as they possibly can to avoid unions. See McDonald's in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_and_unions#German...

The Tesla workers in Sweden don't want to unionize. The majority of the ~120 employees in Sweden are ignoring the strike called by IF Metall and continuing to work. Only a handful are supporting the strike.

Elon Musk is known to fire people that support unions openly. I very much doubt they will tell the whole truth if asked, unless it is personally by a friend, not by a newspaper.